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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1661
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(Scouting,) Scoutting, vbl. n.2 [e.m.E. scowting (1644); Scout v.] The action of Scout v.; reconnoitring —1661 Justiciary Ct. Rec. I 10.
[He] did command … two of his horsemen to scoutt in the countrey and observe what men were doing and whom they might apprehend, and that the first man they mett in their scoutting was George Lindsay
